survivors Archives - Shaping Youth

Predatory Practices as Sport? Boys to Men & Swaggerfests

June 15, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

June 15, 2010 Forget the fact that my freshman daughter is friends with JV football guys… ...Or that digital reputations flinging about on social media (FB, Formspring, etc) warn of male ‘players’ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: adolescence, American Dad, athletes, boy toys, boys to men, draft picks, Elin Waldal, Family Guy, Fantasy Football, Gavin Heaton, Gender, George Huguely V, Good Old Boys, high school boys, Inspire Foundation, Jackson Katz, Landon, Landon School, macho, males, manhood, masculinity, Maureen Dowd, My Daddy Taught Me, Packaging-Boyhood, perfect gift for a man, Predatory game, prep school, rape, RESPECT, Seth MacFarlane, sexploits, sexual assault, survivors, swaggerfest, teen bad boys, teen boys lie about sex, teen dating violence, The Good Men Project, The Macho Paradox, Their Dangerous Swagger, Tom Matlack, Tornado Warning, Tough Guise, turning boys into monsters, TV portrayal of dads, wrestling with manhood, Yeardley Love, You are not his property

BlameAThon: Tweet Your Troubles to Fight Cancer Today!

September 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Sept. 9, 2009 School class schedule not what you’d hoped? Coach call you out in front of your teammates? BF ran off with your BFF? Or just need a dose of perspective? Whatcha waitin’ for? “Blame … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: #BlameDrewsCancer, 23andme, ACS, AllRise, American Cancer Society, attitude of gratitude, Blame Drew's Cancer, Blame-a-thon, BlameAThon, Cancer, cancer crusaders, cause marketing, charity, chemo, chemotherapy, citizen-journalism, Derren Brown, disease management, DNA, Drew Olanoff, genetics, health, Kids, Lance Armstrong, livestream, LiveStrong, Media, mobile-social, philanthropy, positive impact, radiation, social-media, survivors, Teen Twitter, trending topics, Twitter, twitter journalism, TwitTip

Youth Advice Slinger With A Story to Tell: Josh Shipp

June 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

June 8, 2009 One week ago today I watched Josh Shipp, a guy who self-defined as a high school class clown with hair that “looks like a chia pet” open the Ypulse Youth Marketing “Mashup” as keynote … [Read more...]

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